In message <rt-4.4.1-77099-1500142545-845.45559-4-0@isc.org>, "Evan Hunt via RT" writes:
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 04:01:26PM +0000, Vicky Risk via RT wrote:
> > I thought the G in DIG stood for ‘grepper’ as in to use the grep utility.
> >
> > Am I wrong?
>
> Jeremy is correct; it is documented as "groper". The first version
> of "dig" was written a long time ago, and while the word "grope" has taken
> on some new connotations in US English in the decades since then, I believe
> it was always intended in the dictionary sense of "feeling around blindly
> in the dark".
>
> I'm not particularly enthusiastic about revising history because what was
> at the time a slang usage has become commonplace, but Jeremy isn't the
> first person to complain about it, either. Maybe we just don't need to
> expand the abbreviation in the man page anymore.
Removing the definition *is* re-writting history. That is how it
is done. Things that you don't want to be known are just not said
anymore.
Instead add a [1] to groper and put the definition of the word in
the man page. "[1] Definition: One who feels around blindly in the
dark, searches for answers."
This is just as important as the D in BIND meaning Domain, not
Daemon.
Gropers are also a type of fish. Google for Sydney Groper / Blue
Groper.
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